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Mesolia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Crambidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Butterflies and moths, Cybalomia, Microchilo, Hednota

Mesolia is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family.

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Description

Palpi porrect, thickly clothed with hair, and extending about twice the length of head. Maxillary palp triangularly scaled. Frons with a conical projection. Antennae of male thickened and flattened. Tibia with the outer spurs about half the length of inner. Fore wings long and narrow, with rounded apex. Veins 4,5 from angle of cell and vein 3 absent. Veins 7,8,9 stalked and veins 10,11 free. The outer margin produced from apex to vein 5. Hind wings with vein 3 absent. Veins 4,5 from angle of cell and vein 6 from upper angle. The upper margin of cell widely separated from veins 8 and vein 7 curving upwards to anastomose with vein 8.

Species

  • Mesolia albimaculalis Hampson, 1919
  • Mesolia baboquivariella (Kearfott, 1907)
  • Mesolia bipunctella Wileman & South, 1918
  • Mesolia huachucaella Kearfott, 1908
  • Mesolia incertellus (Zincken, 1821)
  • Mesolia jamaicensis Hampson, 1919
  • Mesolia margistrigella Hampson, 1899
  • Mesolia meyi Bassi, 2013
  • Mesolia microdontalis (Hampson, 1919)
  • Mesolia monodella Marion, 1957
  • Mesolia nipis (Dyar, 1914)
  • Mesolia oraculella Kearfott, 1908
  • Mesolia pandavella Ragonot in Joannis & Ragonot, 1889
  • Mesolia pelopa (Turner, 1947)
  • Mesolia plurimellus (Walker, 1863)
  • Mesolia presidialis Hampson, 1919
  • Mesolia rectilineella Hampson, 1899
  • Mesolia scythrastis Turner, 1904
  • Mesolia uniformella Janse, 1922
  • References

    Mesolia Wikipedia